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Squirrel Migration

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On April 9, 2023
You think you know pretty much everything about American environmental history (remember that this is my training, not labor history) but then you read something like this and it kinda blows your mind. Even people who love squirrels might have been unnerved at what Philo...
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Rewilding Pennsylvania

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On February 28, 2023
I've spent more than my share of time in rural western Pennsylvania and the only way to describe it is as a beautiful and surprisingly wild place with an aging, declining, and, uh, problematic population. So it's a bit more fun to think about the...
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The Buffalo Commons

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On January 11, 2023
Back in the 1980s, Frank and Deborah Popper came up with the idea of the Buffalo Commons. Basically, their idea was that the western Plains are almost completely depopulated and ecologically degraded. Why not connect up large parts of the Plains and turn bison loose...
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Climate Change and Childbirth

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On December 5, 2022
On at least a couple of occasions here, I've noted that students of mine have expressed that they don't want to have children because they don't think that a world this impacted by climate change is worth bringing life into. This led to a lot...
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